iPhone 12 pro max vs Nikon D850, Apples Newest Phone Compared to a Professional DSLR Camera
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In this video I compare the professional Nikon D850 DSLR vs apples newest iPhone 12 Pro Max 256gb.
I go over the picture quality, the portrait taking abilities with portrait mode, and its shortfalls. I cover whats good and whats not as good.
The difference in weight and convenience of carrying just a phone vs a giant camera with many lenses.
And of course the rather large discrepancy of sensor size and why that makes a difference beyond simply bigger files.
December 7, 2020
iPhone 12 Pro Max vs Nikon D850
I am here at the warehouse today to compare the iPhone 12Pro Max (which is really an arm based computer with a camera on it) to the Nikon D850, a professional camera with a computer in it.
Im going to compare their capabilities, the picture quality, we’re going to talk about Portrait Mode, and of course their physical size and the convenience of carrying either of these around to make your memories. My name is Nicholas Johnson and this is the space warehouse
Lets take a look at these two camera systems.. So - first off, to have the same range of field of view as the iphone, I will have to have THESE two lenses with the D850. The iPhone has three lenses built in, a 13mm - 26mm and 65mm (equivalent) and then it uses software zoom to go between those. So I will need this 14-24mm, and this 24-70mm lens, however every field of view in its entire range will be in full resolution.
Which brings us to resolution.. The iPhone 12 Pro Max takes photos at 12 megapixels, which is 4032x3024. The Nikon D850, however has a 45 megapixel sensor 8256x5504, you might initially look at that and think 8000 is twice 4000 - but when you make a picture twice as wide, it also has to be twice as tall, so this camera has 4 times the resolution as the iPhone 12 Pro Max.
Of course this advantage comes at a cost. The iPhone weighs in at about 9oz with a case - thats a little more than half a pound. To get the same focal lengths, the D850 plus these two lenses weighs 7 pounds. This camera and lens combo is equal to 14 iPhones.
The other cost for going professional DSLR over iPhone is…. cost! The iPhone 12 Pro Max - I have the 256 gb model, and it costs $1,199. Its ready to take pictures. The Nikon D850 camera body costs $2999, and it cant actually take any pictures as is. To add the wide lens, the 14-24mm here from Sigma is $1399, and the 24-70mm is oh hey look its on sale for only $1059! What a steal. Now it can take pictures, but it still cant save them, this camera has one QXD card slot $113 and an SD card slot to match for an onboard backup $19 man those got cheap.
So with $6788 dollars spent - were finally ready to take some pictures! (this is a great time to mention that my videos are not sponsored! :)
Portrait mode.. So portrait mode is getting better all the time, and now with the LiDAR sensor it really knows where your subject is! But for some reason, they haven’t made it so the phone can recognize something is in front of your subject, they only blur out things behind your subject.. And your subject has to be in a pretty specific place in the frame, and you have to be at a specific distance from it. Clearly this feature is
HDR - The iPhone has HDR built right in and turned on by default.. A great example of where this is useful is windows or open doorways in the daytime, shot from indoors. Without HDR, you have to choose to either expose for the bright outdoors, or expose for your more dimly lit room. But HDR mode will just quietly take some number of pictures at different exposures and then combine the properly exposed portion of each photo into one entirely exposed final image; and your phone does that all at once when you take a picture without any evidence that its happening. The D850 can do this, too - its called bracketing. You tell the camera you want to take a bracketed photo and it will automatically rattle off the number of shots you’ve programmed in, each at a different exposure, and then when you bring these into adobe lightroom IT will combine them for you into an HDR photo. Its just that your phone IS a computer, so it can do that all in the background.
Aside from objects in the foreground, another BIG win for the D850 is its uncanny ability to shoot through chain link fences. Like, really, as if they’re not even there. This is because the lens is SO big that only a tiny bit of it is obscured at any time by the thin metal fence bits. Where if we can use this screwdriver as a proxy, you can see it can cover the entire lens on the iPhone - so theres no software trick in the book to get it to shoot through a fence. This is something I use a lot as a race car photographer!
Sometimes portrait mode is as good as a DSLR under specific circumstances, and sometimes it just isn't.